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Old 04-08-2015, 08:09 PM   #1
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Flight Changes--one down--what's next?

Okay--I thought that THIS time we might make it all the way to check-in without a change to our flights. WRONG! AA changes our return flights taking away 5 hours of park time and our reservations. So, I looked on-line, scoped out our options and called. The lovely and nice lady at AA changed our flights to the closest available times, so now we are only losing 45 minutes in the parks and we are able to keep our reservations. We still get in at the same time, but have a lay over in ORD instead of DFW. I prefer DFW because we have had some interesting evening experiences at O'Hare. BUT, I will take what I can and be VERY grateful. They even tossed in extended leg room for the inconvenience of the flight loss. I'm happy!!!! Only 30 days out and we are at our Happy Place again! Can I go tonight?
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Sorry about the loss of some time in our happy place. I'm glad you were able to get them to changethe flight for you. That's great that they threw in the extra leg room!
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I'm glad AA stepped up and made that right for you! Have a Mickey bar for me, ok ?
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Glad you got some of that time back. I would have hated to lose 5 hours.
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Glad you were able to make a change so you lose less park time. Flight changes are a pet peeve of mine. I hate it when airlines do that! And they are not usually in your favor. That's one of the reasons I prefer Southwest. They have NEVER changed a flight time on me in all of the times I've flown with them.
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I just check the flights again and they are safe. If you've seen my other post, I dealing with a little more drama. I just have to make it through the next few days and then I start packing.
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Glad you were able to make a change so you lose less park time. Flight changes are a pet peeve of mine. I hate it when airlines do that! And they are not usually in your favor. That's one of the reasons I prefer Southwest. They have NEVER changed a flight time on me in all of the times I've flown with them.
Me too. I love southwest. I have never had to deal with them changing their flight times. I don't know why other airlines do this.
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When airlines change your flights they are usually pretty good about working with you. We had a similar experience. United cancelled our late flight out of MCO in November and put my family on a basically full flight 4 hours earlier. Because it was full my family was scattered all over the plane. I called them and although it was the latest flight they now had they did put us in the economy plus seating at no charge to keep my family together.
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I usually try to book out pretty far in advance. More often then not, some of our flights get changed. On most occasions, I was able to book better flights than the one changed. Usually the airlines will let you pick the flight of your choice if they cancel or drastically move the time of your flight.

I hope everything works out good for you.
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I usually try to book out pretty far in advance. More often then not, some of our flights get changed. On most occasions, I was able to book better flights than the one changed. Usually the airlines will let you pick the flight of your choice if they cancel or drastically move the time of your flight.

I hope everything works out good for you.
So far I've only had one incident where the airline wouldn't give me a changed schedule and that was with our son and DIL's flight to Hawaii. They failed to acknowledge change of schedule and their flights were cancelled! Talk about mom going out of her way to get that straightened out!!!! I think I lost my cool with that one. But new flights were gotten, just not great ones as they had to take what was available at the last minute.
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Glad you were able to make a change so you lose less park time. Flight changes are a pet peeve of mine. I hate it when airlines do that! And they are not usually in your favor. That's one of the reasons I prefer Southwest. They have NEVER changed a flight time on me in all of the times I've flown with them.
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Me too. I love southwest. I have never had to deal with them changing their flight times. I don't know why other airlines do this.
I read this (from HollyH) and went "Yeah!! Glad we fly Southwest!!" Then the very next day I got an email from Southwest, they changed our flight time on the way to MCO. My heart sunk, but luckily, it was leaving an hour EARLIER so more Disney time!!! I did have to laugh, tho, since I just read this post.
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I read this (from HollyH) and went "Yeah!! Glad we fly Southwest!!" Then the very next day I got an email from Southwest, they changed our flight time on the way to MCO. My heart sunk, but luckily, it was leaving an hour EARLIER so more Disney time!!! I did have to laugh, tho, since I just read this post.
That's good! The only time our airline wants us to leave earlier is when we are coming HOME. Glad SW has your back!
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Okay--I thought that THIS time we might make it all the way to check-in without a change to our flights. WRONG! AA changes our return flights taking away 5 hours of park time and our reservations. So, I looked on-line, scoped out our options and called. The lovely and nice lady at AA changed our flights to the closest available times, so now we are only losing 45 minutes in the parks and we are able to keep our reservations. We still get in at the same time, but have a lay over in ORD instead of DFW. I prefer DFW because we have had some interesting evening experiences at O'Hare. BUT, I will take what I can and be VERY grateful. They even tossed in extended leg room for the inconvenience of the flight loss. I'm happy!!!! Only 30 days out and we are at our Happy Place again! Can I go tonight?
I believe if airlines change flight times by more then 30?min, they have to rebook you at no charge. Glad you caught it! I always provide my email & sign up for flight alerts. And still I go online and recheck flights every so often. More often as trip gets closer!

Glad you were able to get sons tickets sorted out. Guess he learned the hard way!
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